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Friday, 30 May 2008 18:45
In August I will be setting off on my own mission to India with The Leprosy Mission. For two and a half weeks, we will be building a house to be used by Leprosy sufferers who have been exiled from their own homes and need a welcoming environment to recover in. On some days we’ll also be helping out in the nearby Leprosy Hospital, talking to the patients and praying with them. Hopefully we will be able to bring God’s word to those who do not have Him to guide them through their illness. We will be based in Faizabad; a city situated South-East of Delhi. TLM centre at Faizabad was founded in 1938 and in  recent years as well as the hospital, a Vocational Training Centre has also been opened, training students in skills such as tailors, carpenters, motor  mechanics, electricians and many others. The team is made up of 11 people – two of which are male and the rest girls! I will be the youngest on the team,
along with another girl the same age as me. Also on the team is Rebecca Manning, daughter of my school Principal David Manning, the lay reader of St Mary’s Parish in Ballybeen with our own Mervyn Jamison. On Tuesday 10th June, I will be holding a fundraiser in Spence’s Cinema with tombola. Tickets will be £10 each, and drinks and snacks will be included in the price. The film to be shown is ‘Music and Lyrics’ starring Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore.  (Complete coincidence that it’s a film about music…!) If you’re interested in coming just let me know in the next few weeks and if anyone has any suggestions as to other films they’d like to be shown or any questions about what I’ll be doing in India, feel free to chat to me anytime!
Rosie